Refugee arrivals in league of their own
By ALANA MITCHELSON
Young male refugees and asylum seekers are making cross-cultural friendships through their love for sport with the launch of a new Futsal...
Membership drive helps youth hear roar of Lions
By ALANA MITCHELSON
THE Lions Club of Geelong will launch a membership drive next month to encourage young people to sign up and give back...
Crafting smiling faces
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
A BELMONT mum wants Geelong’s crafting community to take up needles, yarn and thread in an initiative that will help bring...
Indy, TAC working Towards Zero
Driving down the local road toll will be the focus of a renewed partnership involving the Independent and the Transport Accident Commission (TAC).
The Independent...
Bay net ban blasted as “nonsense”
State Government has come under further fire for banning commercial net fishing in Port Phillip Bay.
The move was “blatantly political” and “nonsense”, Melbourne Seafood...
Our net loss
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
Commercial netting will finish in Corio Bay on 1 April 2018 in a surprise State Government move.
Government introduced legislation yesterday to...
17 break-ins: victim slams failure to fund CCTV
By ALANA MITCHELSON
A victim of 17 break-ins is shocked State Government has rejected an application for more surveillance cameras around Geelong.
“It’s sickening,” said Raw...
Shire rates rise ‘worst’
GOLDEN Plains Shire had the largest rates increases in the state over the past 10 years, according to new State Government figures.
The rural shire’s...
‘1500 jobs’ in shops at airport
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
A MAJOR commercial and retail zone could create thousands of jobs at Avalon Airport, its chief has told Geelong’s business community.
“We’re...
Staff suffer as firms ‘abandoned’
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
A WORKER was left without entitlements worth $35,000 when a Geelong training company was “abandoned” this year.
The Australian Securities and Investments...
Land prices fall after a high
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
GEELONG land prices have eased after an “alarming” mid-year jump, according to a new report.
The median price of a vacant...
Mum’s friends rally to make wish come true
By ALANA MITCHELSON
WITH three children aged under four, Belmont’s Anj Aitken suffered for months through what she assumed were routine pregnancy aches and pains.
But...
Simplifying the overwhelming
An Ocean Grove author is taking readers back through the humorous, vivid and musical world of the Lala Chronicles with two new books. ...
